No judging: Paschal Donohoe with his Dper secretary-general Robert WattROLLINGNEWS.IE

The results of a new performance management review for the country’s most senior civil servants will not be made public, and will not be available under freedom of information laws as it involves personal information.

The Department of Public Expenditure and Reform (Dper) has said not even the list of targets and objectives agreed between a department’s secretary-general and its minister at the start of the year will be published. Nor will the final ratings of satisfactory or unsatisfactory for individual secretaries-general, which a Dper spokesman noted “is the case for all other grades in the civil service”.

A similar performance review process for the second layer of civil service management, including assistant and deputy secretaries and ambassadors, began in January 2016. While the individual…

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